Thanks for the video and I hope you keep this series, your foundation, alive for a long time. There’s just something about your entire persona that is soothing to watch. Your videos don’t always make me crack up but they put a smile of nostalgic pleasure on my face. So thank you and keep up the awesome AVGN that we all love you for.

I’m with Seabass and JustCody. James, you represent everything good about the internet. You can’t see it (at least I hope you can’t), but I’ve got a beer in my hand. It ain’t Rolling Rock but it’ll do. Here’s to you, buddy.

Great video as always. I agree with SEABASS in the fact that your videos aren’t just for humor but for nostalgic value as well. There are always times where I say “Hey I remember that” and there are always times where I laugh my ass off. You are always entertaining weather it is AVGN or your movie reviews. I have high respects for you and all your knowledge, espically with your movies. I notice this is your 92nd AVGN episode. I can’t wait for the 100th episode. I expect it to be excellent, and while I wait for it, I know there will be other great videos in between. I hate people that only watch AVGN and not your other videos.

wow, some of those were pretty epic…I think the glitch I’m most familiar with would have to be when you slip between 2 pieces of architecture and fall out of the world. I’ve encountered it in Sonic, Metroid Prime, The Conduit, and in Kraid’s stage in Smash Bros Melee. It tends to happen where a wall meets a floor, a doorway connecting 2 rooms, or just 2 floorboards…Oh yeah! There is also the Temple of time in Ocarina of Time, which is apparently a medieval TARDIS, because when you step inside it looks small and then once you pass the threshold it becomes much larger.

Fucking Awesome video, It’s about time I don’t see a nice AVGN video with teatrics, they are the best, That glitch goblin was a real motherfucker! I just wish James had beaten him up for good in the end of the video, what an ass, messing up nice games like that..

Worth mentioning that this is not the first time the nerd quotes modern games… I think it is ok once in a while, just hope he doesn’t make an habit of it. Retro gaming is the real essence of AVGN.

This is, undoubtedly, the most interesting and informative video you have to date. The Twilight Zone analogy perfectly sums up my thoughts!

Once again, you have inspired me to do something- even if it isn’t anything to do with my life at all. Now, whenever I play video games, I’m going to look for glitches.

Nice to see Kevin again. The green on his skin looked fantastic, almost perfect. He’s got a lovely Irish accent, too!

Speaking of glitches, I found one once, though it wasn’t really a typical one. I played Spongebob Squarepants: The Battle For Bikini Bottom on XBOX, and I had beaten the final boss, though I didn’t necessarily complete all the levels. Kinda cool, actually.

Of all the games that you have played, which one would you say had the most glitches? Which games had the most frustrating glitches?

James, I was a little scared about where this was going at first. I thought it wasn’t going to be as focused as AVGN usually. it was fuckin’ awesome! I’m glad you showed us some of the weirder glitches. glitches and secrets are my favorite part of the game!.

That was pretty cool. I never knew any of the ones you mentioned. It’s weird seeing them for the first time now, it’s like you threw a big glitch into my memories! I was playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 with a friend back when it came out, and I remember at one point my friend’s character fell off his board, but didn’t get back on, instead he just kept bouncing up and down on his head. We couldn’t fix it. I tried running into him, but it just knocked me off my skateboard. We had to reset the game. It was pretty funny, actually.

I’ve worked on NES emulators, and done NES homebrew. I have somewhat of an idea what went on in that Megaman 5 glitch.

The mapper chip has a counter that’s supposed to tick down every scanline, then it fires an IRQ when its counted all the way down, so the game can split the screen at that particular scanline. And for some reason, that counter wasn’t ticking down. But the counter its tied to the graphics pins on the cartridge, so if the graphics are screwed up, usually the scanline counter breaks too, but having it not work and having correct graphics at the same time is really strange.
The only time I ever saw the IRQ counter screw up like that was in Gremlins 2, where it ‘froze’ half way through the ending.

Seeing the Megaman 5 VHS recording documenting your encounter and eventual triumph over that glitch seemed surreal. Awesome to see something from so long ago make it appropriately into an AVGN episode.

Without traditional saves or reliable password systems, I would sometimes risk it anyways and try to shift the cartridge slightly around and pray that a glitch would go away without resetting the actual game on accident or glitching things up even more.

I can remember one time while playing “Super Mario World”, I hit a question mark that an egg popped out of, but it didn’t hatch a Yoshi. Instead, it hatched one of the football flinging enemies. I could actually ride him around though & he still had the Yoshi tongue. I can remember the amusement expressed by myself & my sister at just how royally fucked up it was. Sadly, I listened to her & jumped off halfway through the level & never, ever got that glitch again.

I have a lot to say:
#1 Great video, I’ll be sure to try some of these out
#2 I have a good ljn game “Maximum carnage”
#3 The reason for huge passwords is because they need to figure out what weapons you have, amount of ammo, and where you are in the game
#4 Clubber fuck HAHAHAHAHA

Speaking of Mega Man glitches, in Mega Man 3 if you held left and B on controller 2 it would make Mega Man able to jump almost to the top of the screen and it allowed you to walk in the pits and jump out of them. Also while in a pit if you pressed right on controller 2 it would act as if you died but if you pressed left again and jumped out it would make you invincible however the mega buster no longer worked but the boss weapons still worked.

My most hated glitches came from Mortal Kombat Trilogy on the PS1. That game would glitch if you just looked at it funny.

The rocky stuff was awesome. zombie rocky with a hole in his jaw will haunt me.
The annoying for to me at least is glichs seem to happen when your playing the games for a long time or the game has alot of content like the sims games on any of the conseles. Glitchs, freezing. Its horriable you just have to make sure to save alot

Here’s a glitch I just now came across in the MMORPG, Perfect World International. It may be only on my screen however, but it’s a glitch none the less. I just created a new character on a different server for the first time, and this is what I got! Also, note the characters avatar up in the left hand corner.

I remember when I was a kid, I had an awesome random Megaman 2 glitch. that I could not ever get to reoccur. I was in Heatman’s stage, and jumping through the gate that would take me into the bosses room, (now I jumped through it, not walked) and it paused me at my vertical level, and sent me across the screen, past heatman, and through a gate on the opposite wall. That gate took me to Dr. Wily stage 1. I forget what item I had equipped at the time, or how far I was in the game. I usually did Heatman last.

awesome video. I have the Rocky game on PS2 and I never had a glitch on it. I have that black NES cleaner but I do not use it. I take a popsicle stick, a towel, and windex. Put the popsicle stick in the towel and windex one side. Clean the cartridge. Take the other side and to dry it. It works. Like one time recent I was playing Batman NES and my brother lightly drop his phone next to the NES. The rumble made the game glitch and I was on the last level and had to start over. Lucky I beaten it that night and I did not know what to play next.

The only glitch I can remember triggering on purpose was the Rygar one where you walk on top of the landscape boundaries. It was always cool to try and find new areas to enter the glitch and try and explore as much as possible.

The nerd survived the assault. However no RESET button will ever erase this little mishap from his mind. The events that took place tonight will forever remain in his memory, reminding him of the disadvantages that playing shitty games will always have. Nevertheless he will carry on, because he carries a strong sense of duty that encourages him to do so, and with that, there is no secret code to simplify the task. Because for him as well as for all of us, there´s no tellling when we´ll find a warp… to the Twilight Zone.

Like everyoneI really hate game glitches. although they tend to occur on the PC.

The most common glitch I get is the “minimize to windows” glitch…and if you try and maximize the game again, despite it not being run in a window, it screws up the game and you have to reset the computer.

I developed a rather violent approach to this…Whenever this happens, because the computer tower is right next to my right leg, my foot automatically swings left and then right and I kick the bastard in anger…either that or I punch or strangle the monitor.

I wouldnt recommend this though, you could seriosuly damage your computer…and I need some Ritalin!

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i believe you forgot one of the most popular and helpful glitches in all time,… the MissingNo. in Pokemon,… y remember creating a huge colection of pokemons (with the glitch help of course) when i just do the incorrect thing (i belive catching him,.. or something like that,.. im not sure) and fucked up and erase all my game and data hahahahahhaa i was so pissed off that i never end that game…..

the video crashed halfway through for me!! plus it was constantly freezing

the irony would be delicious if it wasn’t so annoying

I remember the famous ‘freeze’ glitch on Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 for Sega where, even on the very hard setting, if you jump-kicked the enemy, and jumped back while he was still on the ground, he would get up and do nothing; he’d just stand there for a good few seconds (freeze), allowing you to jump-kick him again

This was one of your best episodes James. It was nice to show the younger audience how it was to be a gamer back in the NES days of having to deal with these glitches and the some of the methods of trying to fix it. Good job on another great video.

Also, I played MK: Shaolin Monks on PS2 for the first time, and when I got to Reptile, as soon as the fight started, the camera jumped down under the ground and was pointing up at the characters. I tried pressing all the buttons, but after about 2 seconds, it suddenly cut again, right to Reptile’s fatality. Game Over.

Don’t listen to the nay sayers James. I have seen all of your AVGN videos and I thought that this one was great!! Every gamer old and young can relate to this. (Although the all too familiar flicker of a gliching nes had me rolling.)

There was a glitch I’d perform all the time in Super Mario Bros. 2, its been partially fixed in the all-stars version, but can still work sometime. Its still best to do it in the NES version. what you do is collect 4 cherries, drop a door potion and go through the door, while on the dark side, collect the 5th cherry to make the star appear, collect it and then wait or go through the door, back on the normal side when the star goes way, you should hear the dark side’s music on the normal side. It is possible to play through the entire level like this, so long as nothing effects the music.

Awesome video James! As usual, you know how to bring something fresh and original to the table other than just one game review after another. I have to say that I was never a fan of the forced anger and superfluous rants for effect, so unlike some other people, I like the newer mellower nerd who is calm and explanatory where he needs to be, and angry when it is justified.

Great video James!!! It totally brought me back to times where I have found glitches myself haha! I think my favorite glitch was from Zelda ocarina of time. This glitch is called the debug code, i’m sure someone has already listed this but I think you will enjoy this glitch if you got the time. Again great video and I cant wait to see other videos of yours soon =).

Wow that’s allot of glitches. Just how long have you been collecting them? Did you ever do the N64 Mario Kart one where you drive perfectly at a corner and somehow pass between the edges of the corner?

i think you need to try gta 4 online or offline HOLY FUCK me and my friend we founded like 30 glitches no jokes and in gta 4 the ballade of guy tony we have found we can fly IM NOT KIDDING in gta they have like 2000 glitches

My friends and I found these really weird glitches back when we got sick of playing Mario 64, if you play the game, then wiggle the cartrige around, and very slightly try to pull it out, Mario can have seisures, can turn into a legless, armless stub of a body lying down floating in mid air, one time we were messing around with it and went through a door, only to be stuck in pitch black limbo, the door disappeared. You could sometimes jump ridiculously high and walk through walls, and for no reason, get rocketed in one direction, in one level we ended up flying out like 100m from the stage 0_o

awesome video again james! dont know if u would do this but it would be nice if there was a sequel to this video where u finally defeat the gremlin for putting u through this hell! maybe sometime in the future u might consider it cuz just like bugs bunny, he will never leave u alone! again keep up the good work

I think its the warm air from your breath that for some reason will get your games to fire up…but i use the classic NES and usually i just put the game in and then start wiggling the cartridge until you can see the title screen then press reset presto! prolly not good for the 72 pin i dunno it works…and super mario 2 i dunno if its a glitch but the mask guy if you grab the key and go outside the room and then set the key down for a few moments and then pick it up again the mask fucker will stop following you for an extended period of time, long enough for you to do what you gotta do…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If at first you are unsure about whether or not an episode of the AVGN is funny, watch it a second time. First time I was like “WTF with the glitch gremlin” thing, but watch it again and you see that it’s brilliant. I will say that at the end, watching the glitches from Rocky was kind of scary. It’s that sort of breakdown of reality(in game at least) that tends to fuel nightmares and stuff.

I also notice that there were some things that James didn’t go over. Actually it’s cool that he mentioned a glitch from the Atari game where most people would have obviously have gone for the secret world in Metroid. All in all it was pretty good. Now I can’t wait to see what fun James is going to show us next month. It’s hard waiting, but for some reason time just seems to fly by.

i didnt get it till just now, but theres a fucking glitch on your link in your homepage! i thought my pc was just bummin it up, but you goddamn did that intentionaly. takes faith in a fan base to pull some shit like that. nice job on the theme, and i appreciate the effort put into your archives. good ep

There are tons of glitches out there, impossible to bring them all into one vid…

I liked the Mario walkthrough, a gameseries that is often referred to as “perfect” I missed the Mario 64 glitch at that point though… when you are outside the castle and got the hat with wings, you can fly into the “princess peach”-window

Wow, I guess that “mythical” release date wasn’t too far off the mark. Anyway I’ve tried watching this four times, but I can’t get past the first 20 seconds. The vid keeps glitching up on me… fucking glitch gremlin or something.